TY - BOOK AU - Prendinger,Helmut AU - Lester,James AU - Ishizuka,Mitsuru ED - SpringerLink (Online service) TI - Intelligent Virtual Agents: 8th International Conference, IVA 2008, Tokyo, Japan, September 1-3, 2008. Proceedings T2 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science, SN - 9783540854838 AV - Q334-342 U1 - 006.3 23 PY - 2008/// CY - Berlin, Heidelberg PB - Springer Berlin Heidelberg KW - Computer science KW - Information systems KW - Data mining KW - Artificial intelligence KW - Computer simulation KW - Computer Science KW - Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics) KW - User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction KW - Simulation and Modeling KW - Information Systems and Communication Service KW - Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery N1 - Emotion and Empathy -- Narrative and Augmented Reality -- Conversation and Negotiation -- Nonverbal Behavior -- Models of Culture and Personality -- Markup and Representation Languages -- Architectures for Robotic Agents -- Cognitive Architectures -- Agents for Healthcare and Training -- Agents in Games, Museums and Virtual Worlds -- Posters N2 - This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA 2008, held in Tokyo, Japan, in September 2008. The 18 revised full papers and 28 revised short papers presented together 42 poster papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 99 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on motion and empathy; narrative and augmented reality; conversation and negotiation; nonverbal behavior; models of culture and personality; markup and representation languages; architectures for robotic agents; cognitive architectures; agents for healthcare and training; and agents in games, museums and virtual worlds UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85483-8 ER -